I doubt anybody can help me with this, but what the heck? It's a slow day and you never know?

I *think* I have the only functioning ' Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!' in Nukedom. It took me a while to figure out how it ticks. Having done so, the 'problem' is keeping it 'running', e.g. pulling data from various search engine results. In order to do this, you have to be able to make adjustments to the script, as result screens on these search engines will change format, from time-to-time. Really, it's no big deal, once you've got the concept down...

Anyway, last night, I ran across a site that had a script that checked Alexa for link popularity. I thought, "Cool! Let's do it!"

The basic scripting was no problem, or so I thought, For instance:
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...pulls results for Ravens PHP Scripts.

However, when I went to do 'the magic', this is what I was confronted with:

Obviously, and intentionally, you cannot do jack diddly with this. So, I tried a different route:
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This was better:

Code:

<b>Other sites that link to this site:</b>&nbsp; <a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/ds/linksin?q=link:ravenphpscripts.com/&amp;url=ravenphpscripts.com">
<!--Did you know? Alexa offers this data programmatically. Visit http://webservices.amazon.com/ for more information about the Alexa Web Information Service.-->16</a>

It gave me something I could work with. It was simple matter of taking:

Code:

Service.-->

...and counting foward 10 characters. The only problem was, this pulls the first instance which gives you (in Raven's case) 57,974 instead of 16.

At that point, I thought I might as well do it the right way and contact:
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...per their comments, but that link simple errors out!

Sooooo, does anybody know what's up with webservices.amazon.com?

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VinDSL, what timing! I released a beta version of Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! which includes a link popularity checker in it, among other things. It looks at 5 of the top search engines and parses the number of links. Unfortunately, when Google switched to it's new approach, the link:nukeseo.com search no longer returned results. I noticed tonight, however, that it seems to be working again.

How does your tool work? Would you consider allowing it to be included in nukeSEO, with full credit, of course?

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How does your tool work? Would you consider allowing it to be included in nukeSEO, with full credit, of course?

Yes, that would be fine, but I'm busier than a one-armed wallpaper hanger right now...

And, yes, Google works fine with the script I'm using! It uses a SOAP method:
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..to exchange info with Google Web APIs:
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Maybe I can send you this, after the New Year, and you can see what you think...

Did you do a ipconfig /flushdns? Aytime something weird like that happens, that's usually the problem. Your home PC had my old IP cached. I changed IP's.

Hrm...

No, I didn't flush my cache, but it's not unusual for my ISP to take a while to update their zone files. They used to be horrible about it, in the last century. I used to have to call Cybertrails, and kick them in their Cyberbuttes 'cause they only updated their files every couple of weeks...

Anyway, I don't know when you made 'the switch', but perhaps the changes are still propagating. Whatever! I'm kicking my own butt for not realizing something was going on sooner...

In this case, I switched my default DNS to the IP in Virginia earlier, so I can get to your site from this machine, so that's what nslookup uses first -- the default DNS. As you can see, it knows where your site is, and it knows where my site is...

Then, I switched the DNS IP to my local ISP in Arizona. It cannot find your site, but it finds mine, albeit with a timeout (which isn't very encouraging).

Maybe my ISPs DNS server is jacked up. Wouldn't surprise me!

Anyway, no big deal, as long as I'm the only person in the world this is happening to. It just forces me to be a little creative...

The Alexa module I use is from monkeyManv2.com, but the download doesn't exist there anymore. You can find the download Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!. I spoke with the author about including it in nukeSEO, but he said he wanted to update it first.

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